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A retrieval engine that handles grant & funding tracking end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Aimed at trade schools registrars, closing the loop while everyone is asleep.
In short: Trade schools Grant Tracker on Retrieval is a retrieval engine aimed at trade schools registrars, covering grant & funding tracking. It scores 74/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by timing (89) and held back by feasibility (54). Typical pricing is $3.9k–$84k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $29k–$76k.
Trade schools teams lose reporting deadlines discovered the week they are due. A typical trade schools operation runs this on people, memory, and a shared spreadsheet. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
A narrow retrieval engine scoped to grant & funding tracking alone — no platform, no migration, no six-month rollout. Revenue is per-outcome, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $173M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 13% |
| Annual contract value | $3.9k – $84k |
| Pricing model | Per-outcome |
| Time to first revenue | 79 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $29k – $76k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Retrieval over private documents became cheap enough to run per query. Trade schools is growing at roughly 15% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
The data you need lives on paper in a back office; digitisation is half the product.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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